U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that doctors can refuse treatment transgender patients and women who have had abortions on the basis of their religion. If a doctor considers gender transition and abortion to be evil based on his religion, he does not have to provide service to such persons.
Ok, let’s put that into English:
If a woman had an abortion, and the doctor knows it and does not like it, he can refuse treatment to that woman. Any treatment. This is not just about performing abortions, mind you, it could be refusing to write a prescription for a cold medicine.
Let’s put that into perspective:
What would we say if an atheist doctor refused treatment to Christians, because those Christians believe in stuff he thinks is nonsense. So he claims his belief system gives him the right to refuse service to such people.
It seems like a valid argument to me.
We certainly are removing that “wall of separation” between church and state or at least knocking some significant holes in it. A major repair is needed soon or the wall may crumble. Now the missing chunks have a Christian stamp on them. I wonder what would be the decision if the stamp had a Sharia touch.
This is disgraceful.
Salem witch trials are not far behind. Fuck religion: intellectual suicide on the personal level, death/suffering/torture/war for the rest of us. As Richard Feynman said, “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”